What is your single favourite line of lyrics?

Posted by: winkyincanada on 08 November 2008

"She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake..."
Posted on: 11 November 2008 by jadip
it's not having what you want but,
wanting what you have.

Sheryl Crow
Posted on: 11 November 2008 by gone
my Maserati does 185, I lost my licence so now I don't drive.....
Posted on: 11 November 2008 by David Scott
Not saying it's his best, but it doesn't get much better.
quote:
Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying this land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem.
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

I heard the hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
Hear the undertaker's bell
Nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, God is in his heaven
And we all want what's his
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
Also, sung by Johnny Cash, written by Mike Charrette:
quote:
It rained all the way to Cincinnati
With our mattress on top of the car
Posted on: 11 November 2008 by count.d
There was one classic line which meant a lot to me when I was younger and which we (as a group of intellectual pretending yobs) would discuss both the political and moral implications it had, at the time, on the street children in Brazil.



"Agadoo doo doo push pineapple shake the tree,
Agadoo doo doo push pineapple grind coffee,
To the left to the right jump up and down and to the knees,
Come and dance every night sing with a hula melody"
Posted on: 11 November 2008 by Jet Johnson
....Gawd this is embarrassing but ....

I stood on a ridge and shunned religion thinking the world was mine ..I made my break and a big mistake stealin' when I should have been buying

...Stealin' by Uriah Heep (!)
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by Consciousmess
"Of course Jesus says: "I'll cure it soon, abolish Monday morning and Friday afternoon"

The other one's out on hunger strike he's dying by degrees

How can Jesus get industrial disease??!"
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by Steeve
Obviously impossible to select just one, but today I'm mostly thinking of the great couplet..

"...I wish things were different,
The way they used to be..."

"I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry" by Carl Perkins
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by Steve Bull
'Is your child hyperactive - or is he just a twat?'
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by Steeve
also..

"...And tomorrow I will buy a new friend from the new friend shop
Because my friend you are not
And I hate you as much as I miss you."

(Emmy The Great)

"'What time is it?', said the judge, to Joey when they met.
'Five to ten', said Joey.
The judge said, 'That's exactly what you get'."

(Bob Dylan)
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by A0S
"She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
And she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan"

"Behind the soft and peachy skin
Where D.N.A. or God begin"

"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street"
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by 555
Pass me the pool cue and call yourself an ambulance

My favourite worst C&W song title!
Posted on: 12 November 2008 by John M
911 is a joke!
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by The Strat (Fender)
"No sooner had I hit the streets when I met the fools that a young fool meets" - Jackson Browne - Daddy's Song (The Pretender).
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by Jet Johnson
Elvis was a hero to most But he never meant f*** all to me you see Straight up racist that sucker was Simple and plain Motherf*** him and John Wayne
Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by 555
Interesting one Jet; who's that by?
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by Jet Johnson
quote:
Originally posted by 555:
Interesting one Jet; who's that by?


.... Fight The Power by Public Enemy

Featured on the soundtrack to the Spike Lee movie
Do The Right Thing
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by DenisA
A theme...

"Don't you think of anything but SEX?"

"I would rather climb into bed, with a rattlesnake!"

"How Long... has this this been goin on?"

The last one is not a relationship you might think it is talking about.
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by Guido Fawkes
forgiveness doesn't come with a debt - MCC
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by Klout10
"I'm never gonna work another day in my life
The gods told me to relax"

Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by John M
So close your tired eyes little one
And crawl within my reach
Oh and wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
And we'll ride tonight on the beach
Out where the surfers sat wet and cold
As they watch the skies
There'll be a silence to match their own
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by Guido Fawkes
I walk 47 miles of barbed wire,
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie,
I got a brand new house on the roadside,
Made from rattlesnake hide,
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
Made out of a human skull,
Now come on take a walk with me, Arlene,
And tell me, who do you love?
Posted on: 13 November 2008 by John M
quote:
Originally posted by Jet Johnson:
quote:
Originally posted by 555:
Interesting one Jet; who's that by?


.... Fight The Power by Public Enemy

Featured on the soundtrack to the Spike Lee movie
Do The Right Thing


I was hoping my little PE snippet would inspire more from that great group. How about:

Get me the hell away from this TV
All this news and views are beneath me
Cause all I hear about is shots ringin' out
So I rather kick some slang out
All right fellas let's go hand out
Hollywood or would they not
Make us all look bad like I know they had
But some things I'll never forget yeah
So step and fetch this s&*%
For all the years we looked like clowns
The joke is over smell the smoke from all around
Burn Hollywood burn

As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard
Thinkin' how hard it was to those that starred
In the movies portrayin' the roles
Of butlers and maids slaves and hoes
Many intelligent Black men seemed to look uncivilized
When on the screen
Like a guess I figure you to play some j$&@%*#
On the plantation, what else can a n$*@&! do
And Black women in this profession
As for playin' a lawyer, out of the question
For what they play Aunt Jemima is the perfect term
Even if now she got a perm
So let's make our own movies like Spike Lee
Cause the roles being offered don't strike me
There's nothing that the Black man could use to earn
Burn Hollywood burn
Posted on: 14 November 2008 by tonym
"He's the man with the biggest plonker in the world
(Dingle dangle strap it to your ankle)
He keeps it in his trousers tightly curled,
It's a yard and a half if it's an inch,
and it's more when it's unfurled,
ow, ow, he's the man with the biggest plonker in the world"

Majestic, moving, timeless lyrics from that most romantic of songsmiths, Ivor Biggun.
Posted on: 14 November 2008 by Andy1912
There stands the glass
That will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain
It's my first one to day
There stands the glass
That will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears
Brother, I'm on my way

Razz
Posted on: 14 November 2008 by Guido Fawkes
quote:
Originally posted by Steve Bull:
'Is your child hyperactive - or is he just a twat?'


Hmmm I recognise that - BTW is Dorset the new Iceland or would you rather go to Cuba, just wondered.